Safety Management – MODERN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS)
by ► MIS has become powerful tool for industry, trade and business in the modern world. ► It should be user friendly and easy to understand. …
ACCIDENT PRONENESS
CONCEPT: ► It can be defined as a higher than average susceptibility to accident, which arises from psychological factors and tends to be permanent, if …
FATIGUE, BOREDOM AND MONOTONY
► These are another psychological factors affecting human behavior. ► Fatigue: It is a reduction in ability to do work because of previous work. ► …
FRUSTRATION & CONFLICT (Impacting Safety Performance)
►Frustration means defeat or disappointment towards success. ►Any interference with the achievement of goal causes frustration. ►Frustration brings morale degradation, which in turn increases accident …
ACCIDENT COST TO THE MANAGEMENT
Management suffers two types of costs; 1.Direct or Insured or Tangible costs 2.Indirect or Uninsured or Intangible (hidden) cost Direct Costs: ►This includes compensation paid …
MOTIVATION FOR SAFETY
Need (Purpose) of Motivation: ► It includes inspiration, aspiration, communication, education, participating and training. ► All these factors are essential to mould a man to …
VL Grose’s Multiple Causation Theory
As per this thoery many contributing factors combine together in random fashion, causing accidents. Such factors should be identified. As figure mostly man, machine and …
WILLIAM HADDEN’S ‘ENERGY RELEASE THEORY’
•William Hadden, in 1970 explained ‘energy transfer or release’ as the main factor for accident causation and said that the accidents and injuries are caused …
BENCHMARKING FOR SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Benchmarking ►Benchmarking means ‘to find and follow the best practices to produce or get the best result in terms of performance , profit, productivity etc. …
ROLE OF SAFETY COMPETITION & INCENTIVE SCHEMES
►SAFETY COMPETITION ►This is another method of worker’s participation in safety. ►Competitions are of two types 1.Individual- essay, posters, slogans etc. 2.Group- House keeping contest …